Eva Ibbotson's magical novel is set in Vienna before the First World War. The delightful Madensky Square is populated by a host of colourful characters, including dressmaker Susanna. But only Susanna's closest friend Alice has any inkling that Susanna hides more than one secret.

January 1994. On orders from his uncle General Eisenhower, First Lt. Billy Boyle is sent to Naples to track down the Red Heart Killer -- a serial murderer who seems to be moving systematically up the ranks of Allied officers. Can he find the madman before the cards run out? Find out in this thriller from fan-favorite author James R. Benn.

There was almost a second revolution in America -- after the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency in 1800, Federalists and Republicans were locked in an acrimonious struggle for power. Cliff Sloan and David McKean tell the story of how Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall stepped forward in a landmark decision to redraw the lines of political control -- and redefine the court's role in preserving the Constitution. A thrilling true story of democracy in crisis.

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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and years later he still hasn’t grown up despite his professorship, estranged wife, and pregnant girlfriend. This satire of the permanent adolescence of the creative class is mordant, humane, and features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction.

One Love by Cedella Marley and Vanessa Newton from Chronicle Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (November 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This heartwarming picture book takes one of Bob Marley's most beloved songs, "One Love," and brings it joyfully to life. Cedella Marley has beautifully adapted her father's song, and Vanessa Newton compliments it with gorgeous illustrations. (Available on Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad, and Kindle for Android).

Today's deal offers three books in TF Muir's DI Andy Gilchrist series. In Eye for an Eye, DI Andy Gilchrist investigates six murders, each stabbed to death through their left eye. Gilchrist is back in Hand for a Hand, in which an amputated hand is found at a crime scene, clutching a note addressed to Gilchrist. In Tooth for a Tooth, a murder Gilchrist is investigating takes him back 35 years into his past to find his own brother's killer.

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Duck for President by Doreen Cronin from Simon & Schuster ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (November 6)

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From the creators of the beloved children's book Click, Clack, Moo comes this entertaning tale of a plucky duck who began in a humble pond, worked his way to farmer, to governor, and now, perhaps, to the highest office in the land.

Presented in the NOOK Read to Me format for your NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet.

Though he never ran for the presidency of the nation he helped create, the inventor, writer, and statesman Benjamin Franklin remains one of the most captivating figures of his time. Walter Isaacson -- who expertly delved into the life of the modern business revolutionary Steve Jobs -- delivers a portrait of "the Founding Father who winks at us" that brings Franklin's unclassifiable genius (and irrepressible wit) into sharp focus.

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The American Patriot's Almanac : Daily Readings on America by William J. Bennett and John T.E. Cribb from Thomas Nelson ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” They are the symbols that help define the United States, that mark its historic course, and connect its people. It's a daily source of inspiration and information about America's history, heroes, and achievements.

Organized by country, this historical exploration includes stories of girls and women from across Europe and the United States who risked their lives to fight the Nazis during World War II. Written with excitement and immediacy, all 26 profiles were expertly researched and include dialogue, direct quotes, and document excerpts.

In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia.

The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal’s deep love for their small, exotic corner of the new world, and William’s gradual realization that if he wants to make a home for his family, he must forcibly take the land from the people who came before him.

Acclaimed around the world, The Secret River is a magnificent, transporting work of historical fiction.

For more than a century, pilgrims from all over the world seeking romance and passion have made their way to the City of Light. The seductive lure of Paris has long been irresistible to lovers, artists, epicureans, and connoisseurs of the good life.

Globe-trotting film critic and writer John Baxter heard her siren song and was bewitched. Now he offers readers a witty, audacious, scandalous behind-the-scenes excursion into the colorful all-night show that is Paris — interweaving his own experience of falling in love, with a delightfully salacious tour of the sultry Parisian corners most guidebooks ignore: from the literary cafés of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and de Beauvoir to the brothels where Dietrich and Duke Ellington held court, where Salvador Dali sated his fantasies, and Edward VII kept a sumptuous champagne bath for his favorite girls.

In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes—creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world’s most painful hornet, to the flies that transmit deadly diseases, to millipedes that stop traffic, to the “bookworms” that devour libraries, to the Japanese beetles munching on your roses, Wicked Bugs delves into the extraordinary powers of six- and eight-legged creatures.

With wit, style, and exacting research, Stewart has uncovered the most terrifying and titillating stories of bugs gone wild. It’s an A to Z of insect enemies, interspersed with sections that explore bugs with kinky sex lives (“She’s Just Not That Into You”), creatures lurking in the cupboard (“Fear No Weevil”), insects eating your tomatoes (“Gardener’s Dirty Dozen”), and phobias that feed our (sometimes) irrational responses to bugs (“Have No Fear”).

Intricate and strangely beautiful etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs capture diabolical bugs of all shapes and sizes in this mixture of history, science, murder, and intrigue that begins—but doesn’t end—in your own backyard.

When author Cathy Glass is asked to foster one-day old Harrison, her only concern is if she will remember how to look after a baby. But upon collecting Harrison from the hospital, Cathy discovers that the baby's background is shrouded in secrecy. When a woman begins acting suspiciously in the street outside Cathy's house, she begins to fear for her family's safety.

Billy Graham has been called America's pastor, who for more than 60 years has presided over a ministry that has reached hundreds of millions -- if not billions -- of people. Today to celebrate the occasion of his 94th birthday, we offer perhaps his most personal book, a meditative reflection on aging, faith, wisdom, and the gift of years.

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Sly Fox: A Dani Fox Novel by Jeanine Pirro from Hyperion ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Emmy-winning Judge Jeanine Pirro has brilliantly leveraged her legal experience to create a gripping debut set in Westchester, New York, during 1976. It's a town suffering from rampant cocaine abuse, a fraternity-like courthouse, and a culture of domestic violence. Enter Dani Fox, an ambitious 25-year-old assistant district attorney seeking justice.

In this adventurous series debut, 12-year-old twins John and Abigail Templeton have been kidnapped, along with their dog, by a set of grown up twins: Dean D. Dean and Dan D. Dean. What's the brothers' nefarious goal? To force the young twins' father to hand over one of his inventions.

With 13 ½, Nevada Barr, New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Anna Pigeon novels, has written a taut and terrifying psychological thriller. It carries the reader from the horrifying 1970s murder spree of a child— dubbed “Butcher Boy” by a shocked public—in Rochester, Minnesota, to Polly, the abused daughter of Mississippi “trailer trash,” to post-Katrina New Orleans.

In Jackson Square in the French Quarter a tarot card reader told Polly Deschamps she would be a success. Thirty years later, Polly is a respected professor of literature with good friends and her own home—a safe life for her and her two daughters.

Butcher Boy, released on his seventeenth birthday, shook the snow from his boots and headed south.
New Orleans, a Mecca for runaways then and now, offers sanctuary but never forgiveness.

When Polly falls in love with Marshall Marchand, a restoration architect who is helping to rebuild her adopted city, shadows of the past rise out of the poisoned ground of New Orleans as thick and deadly as the toxic waters of the flood.

Like history, some crimes are doomed to repeat themselves. Evil stays the same, only the victims’ names change. As two broken pasts collide in an uncertain present, Polly is determined that her children’s names will never be on that list.

“Dick skillfully explores the psychological ramifications of this nightmare.”—The New York Times Review of Books

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said grapples with many of the themes Philip K. Dick is best known for— identity, altered reality, drug use, and dystopia—in a rollicking chase story that earned the novel the John W. Campbell Award and nominations for the Hugo and Nebula.

Jason Taverner—world-famous talk show host and man-about-town—wakes up one day to find that no one knows who he is—including the vast databases of the totalitarian government. And in a society where lack of identification is a crime, Taverner has no choice but to go on the run with a host of shady characters, including crooked cops and dealers of alien drugs. But do they know more than they are letting on? And just how can a person’s identity be erased overnight?

In an America driven to near bankruptcy with crushing foreign debt, the Talos Corporation stands out as a major success story—training soldiers and security forces from around the world and providing logistics and troops for nearly all branches of the United States government. But Talos has another plan in mind—the destruction of the federal system and constitutional law.

Three FBI agents are all that stands between Talos’s CEO Axel Price and the subversion of our nation. Fouad Al-Husam is working undercover in Lion City, Texas, on the Talos Campus—but he may have just overplayed his hand. Agent William Griffin will engage in a desperate diversion to try to rescue Al-Husam, and the top-secret information he literally carries in his blood.

Rebecca Rose is called into action to partner with an unlikely hero: Nathan Trace, one of a team of four who created and programmed the thinking machines that are about to help Axel Price in his plans for domination. Trace and his colleagues were caught up in a violent incident in the Middle East several years ago, and experienced Post-Traumatic Stress disorder. All of them were forcibly enrolled in a treatment program sponsored by Talos Corporation, code-named Mariposa—which supposedly cured their PTSD. But now they are beginning to notice unexpected side effects. The Mariposa subjects are being liberated from nearly all human emotions and concerns—and all mental limits—to become brilliant sociopaths. They are out of control and they must die.

Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

This is the year "It's Greek to me" becomes the happy answer to what's for dinner. My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the upcoming epic Troy, the 2004 Summer Olympics returning to Athens--and now, yet another reason to embrace all things Greek: The Olive and the Caper, Susanna Hoffman's 700-plus-page serendipity of recipes and adventure.

In Corfu, Ms. Hoffman and a taverna owner cook shrimp fresh from the trap--and for us she offers the boldly-flavored Shrimp with Fennel, Green Olives, Red Onion, and White Wine. She gathers wild greens and herbs with neighbors, inspiring Big Beans with Thyme and Parsley, and Field Greens and Ouzo Pie. She learns the secret to chewy country bread from the baker on Santorini and translates it for American kitchens. Including 325 recipes developed in collaboration with Victoria Wise (her co-author on The Well-Filled Tortilla Cookbook, with over 258,000 copies in print), The Olive and the Caper celebrates all things Greek: Chicken Neo-Avgolemeno. Fall-off-the-bone Lamb Shanks seasoned with garlic, thyme, cinnamon and coriander. Siren-like sweets, from world-renowned Baklava to uniquely Greek preserves: Rose Petal, Cherry and Grappa, Apricot and Metaxa.

In addition, it opens with a sixteen-page full-color section and has dozens of lively essays throughout the book--about the origins of Greek food, about village life, history, language, customs--making this a lively adventure in reading as well as cooking.

The "Julia Child of Chinese cooking" (San Francisco Chronicle), Barbara Tropp was a gifted teacher and the chef/owner of one of San Francisco's most popular restaurants. She was also the inventor of Chinese bistro, a marriage of home-style Chinese tastes and techniques with Western ingredients and inspiration, an innovative cuisine that stuffs a wonton with crab and corn and flavors it with green chili sauce, that stir-fries chicken with black beans and basil, that tosses white rice into a salad with ginger-balsamic dressing.

The Dessert Deli is a mouth-watering collection of amazing recipes, bringing luxurious desserts to the comfort of your home. This cookbook offers far more than just cupcakes: indulgent Belgian Chocolate Mousse with Honeycomb, zingy Orange and Passion Fruit Trifle, silky smooth Honey Crème Brûlée and decadent Amaretto Chocolate Truffles are just a few of the tasty recipes on offer.

In Janie Crawford, Zora Neale Hurston has created one of the all-time great characters in modern literature. Throughout three marriages and countless life challenges, she refuses to indulge in sorrow or bitterness. Her evolving sense of personhood has inspired readers for generations in a tale that sparkles with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom.

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Chocolat by Joanne Harris from Penguin ($2.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Vivianne Rocher moves to a tiny French town and opens a chocolate boutique. Suddenly, strange and wonderful things start to happen in the village's rigid culture. The inspiration for the hit movie of the same name, Chocolat is infused with a subtle magic revealing the beauty of humanity's softer side.

The Secret Of The Sirens by Julia Golding from Amazon Children's Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (November 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The first book in Julia Golding's popular Companions Quartet series follows 11-year-old Connie as she moves in with her eccentric aunt by the sea. Connie's world undergoes a wonderful change after she makes friends with the coolest guy around and learns that mythical creatures exist, guarded by an ancient society.

“An exciting thriller that is full of surprises… captures the intense atmosphere of the White House.” —President Bill Clinton

From the blockbuster, New York Times bestselling author comes a high-concept, high-octane thriller at the crossroads of presidential politics and cutting-edge medicine. . . .

Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe’s Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a disturbing revelation and a startling request. His personal physician has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, and he desperately needs Gabe to take the man’s place. Despite serious misgivings, Gabe agrees to come to Washington. It is not until he is ensconced in the White House medical office that Gabe realizes there is strong evidence that the President is going insane. Facing a crisis of conscience—as President Stoddard’s physician, he has the power to invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment to transfer presidential power to the Vice President—Gabe uncovers increasing evidence that his friend’s condition may not be due to natural causes.

Who? Why? And how? The President’s life is at stake. A small-town doctor suddenly finds himself in the most powerful position on earth, and the safety of the world is in jeopardy. Gabe Singleton must find the answers, and the clock is ticking. . . .

With Michael Palmer’s trademark medical details, and steeped in meticulous political insider knowledge, The First Patient is an unforgettable story of suspense.

“Admirers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas should look at this novel as a model of imaginative sympathy” – The Times

Set during the final 24 hours before the armistice at 11 a.m. on 11th November 1918, the story follows a German storm trooper, an American airman and a British Tommy. Their destinies converge during the death throes of the first ever conflict to spread across the globe.

War becomes incredibly personal as nationality and geography cease to matter to each of these teenagers on the Western Front, and friendship becomes the defining aspect of their encounter.

Two of them will live; one of them will die before the following morning.

In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. Douglas, after all, led the only party that bridged North and South. But the Democrats would split over the issue ofslavery, leading Southerners in the party to run their own presidential slate. This opened the door for the upstart Republicans, exclusively Northern, to steal the Oval Office. Dark horse Abraham Lincoln, not the first choice even of his own party, won the presidency with a record-low 39.8 percent of the popular vote.

Acclaimed scholar Douglas R. Egerton chronicles the contest with a historian’s keen insight and a veteran political reporter’s eye for detail. Vividly, Egerton re-creates the cascade of unforeseen events that confounded political bosses, set North and South on the road to disunion, and put not Stephen Douglas, but his greatest rival, in the White House.

We see Lincoln and his team outmaneuvering more prominent Republicans, like New York’s grandiose William Seward, while Democratic conventions collapse in confusion. And we see the gifted, flawed Douglas marking his finest hour in defeat, as he strives, and fails, to save the Union. Year of Meteors delivers a teeming cast of characters, minor and major, and a breakneck narrative of this most momentous year in American history.

February is Lisa Moore’s heart-stopping follow-up to her debut novel, Alligator, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region.

Propelled by a local tragedy, in which an oil rig sinks in a violent storm off the coast of Newfoundland, February follows the life of Helen O’Mara, widowed by the accident, as she continuously spirals from the present day back to that devastating and transformative winter.

After overcoming the hardships of raising four children as a single parent, Helen’s strength and calculated positivity fool everyone into believing that she’s pushed through the paralyzing grief of losing her spouse. But in private, Helen has obsessively maintained a powerful connection to her deceased husband. When Helen’s son unexpectedly returns home with life-changing news, her secret world is irrevocably shaken, and Helen is quickly forced to come to terms with her inability to lay the past to rest.

An unforgettable glimpse into the complex love and cauterizing grief that run through all of our lives, February tenderly investigates how memory knits together the past and present, and pinpoints the very human need to always imagine a future, no matter how fragile.

Aimée Leduc is happy her long-time business partner René has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It’s not her fault if she can’t suppress her doubts about the relationship; René is moving way too fast, and Aimée’s instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of René’s life, isn’t trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never comes back to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man, a science prodigy and volunteer at the nearby Musée, is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway—with Meizi’s photo in his wallet.

Aimée does not like this scenario one bit, but she can’t figure out how the murder is connected to Meizi’s disappearance. The dead genius was sitting on a discovery that has France’s secret service keeping tabs on him. Now they’re keeping tabs on Aimée.

A missing young woman, an illegal immigrant raid in progress, botched affairs of the heart, dirty policemen, the French secret service, cutting-edge science secrets and a murderer on the loose—what has she gotten herself into? And can she get herself—and her friends—back out of it all alive?

This smart work of contemporary satire takes a wry look at life through the eyes of perpetual pessimist Charlie Colostrum: "If you’re feeling happy, just wait. There’s bound to be a downside." Surrounded by a cast of memorable, quirky characters, Charlie's tale is ultimately one of redemption, and Pull Yourself Together a work of satire at its finest: poignant, moving and often hilarious.

Since its founding in 1983, the Writers of the Future contest has celebrated discovered deserving new voices in the fields of speculative fiction and fantasy. These are the authors whose work you'll encounter in the future, and when your friends tell you about them tomorrow, you'll be able to say that you saw them first in today's NOOK Daily Find.

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Twelve Months by Steven Manchester from The Story Plant ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Don DiMarco lives a wonderful life with a family he loves, a comfortable lifestyle, and amusing passions and interests. He also thinks he has time, but some terminal news changes that. Summoning a dormant inner strength, Don seeks to prove 12 months is enough to live a life in full.

Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf from Walker Childrens ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (November 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Allie lost everything when her boyfriend died in a horrible car accident that almost killer her, too. Allie can't remember anything from that night, and now she must as the investigation turns against her. But is it worth it if the truth hurts the people who tried to save her?